The Mind
Fragment: What never is, but only is to be
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
The Mind
What never is, but only is to be
This is not Life:--
O hopeless Hope, and Death's Hypocrisy!
And with perpetual promise breaks its promises.
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Codex Note
1804-5
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Fragment: What never is, but only is to be.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/445/.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Fragment: What never is, but only is to be.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/445/.
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